Literatura

Literature is not only the visual— writing is always pictorial— but also the acoustic element, the spoken word, is an integral part of literature, for the alphabet translates spoken words into signs.

• True

• False

Beowulf is the only English epic poem. It belongs to the seventh century. The poem is written in verse. Alliteration, a pattern of words that begin with the same sound, is one of its main characteristics. It tells a story of a hero that frees the Danes from a monster. Beowulf is a brave warrior who becomes a king and dies to protect his people.

• True

• False

Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?

• Beowulf

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Shakespeare

• Allan Poe

The greatest difference between reading a story and watching a play is that, in a story, you read what characters say and do while in the production of a play you hear the characters themselves speak and see them do things.

• True

• False

In order to solve this problem and be able to present onstage their characters” feelings and secret thoughts, playwrights have made use of the

• Aside

• Dialogue

• Monologue

In a _______________ approach to a play, if there is a Roman soldier in that play, he will have to dress exactly like Roman soldiers did

• Naturalistic

• Conventional

Cycle Plays were performed on the streets, on top of carts called pageant wagons. In York, there were thirteen places (called stations) where these carts would stop so the actors could play.

• True

• False

People usually make a distinction between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as the passage from an age of ignorance to an age of knowledge. This idea is nowadays questioned by many scholars, who not only realize all the cultural diversity present in the Middle Ages, but think it becomes harder and harder to make a clear-cut distinction between the two periods.

• True

• False